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2. How to Spot The Best Vintage Jewelry in Thrift Stores ... - AOL

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   Before buying vintage jewelry, we recommend picking up a few items. ... and 18k mean 10-carat, 14-carat, and 18-carat gold, and 925 indicates sterling silver. You may also see a maker’s mark ...

3. Sterling silver - Wikipedia

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   Some brasswind instrument manufacturers use 92.5% sterling silver as the material for making their instruments, including the flute and saxophone. For example, some leading saxophone manufacturers such as Selmer and Yanagisawa have crafted some of their saxophones from sterling silver. Use as jewelry rings, bracelets, earrings and necklaces.

4. Silver hallmarks - Wikipedia

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   "The words "silver" and "sterling silver" describe a product that contains 92.5% pure silver. Silver products sometimes may be marked 925, which means that 925 parts per thousand are pure silver. Some jewellery described as "silver plate" has a layer of silver applied to a base metal. "Coin silver" is used for compounds that contain 90% pure ...

5. Jewellery - Wikipedia

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   Some jewellery is plated to give it a shiny, reflective look or to achieve a desired colour. Sterling silver jewellery may be plated with a thin layer of 0.999 fine silver (a process known as flashing) or plated with rhodium or gold. Base metal costume jewellery may also be plated with silver, gold, or rhodium for a more attractive finish.

6. Argentium sterling silver - Wikipedia

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   Argentium silver (patented in 1998) [1] is a brand of modern tarnish-resistant silver alloys, containing either 93.5%, 94% or 96% silver. Argentium alloys replace some of the copper in the traditional sterling silver (92.5% silver + 7.5% copper) with the metalloid germanium .

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